They've been jerks from stage 1. I never liked how Radzinsky treated Desmond (at least he gets his in the end) and Phil just DESERVED to be tied up by Sawyer and left to die in a closet.

If only they hadn't intervened ... then Phil would have withered away from starvation while everyone forgot about him because there were more important things going on than him and his lush drunkard's red nose...